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Soulskillon Friday March 05, 2010 @06:13AM
from the i-thought-this-only-happened-to-ati dept.

After a group of StarCraft II beta testers reported technical difficulties following the installation of NVIDIA driver update 196.75, Blizzard tech support found that the update introduced fan control problems that were causing video cards to overheat in 3D applications. "This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics." NVIDIA said they were investigating the problem, took down links to the new drivers, and advised users to revert to 196.21 until the problem can be fixed.

Whoever thinks this is a big issue should evaluate how much security we can expect from computers. Scams like this can be pulled off by sending IRL mail as well and are equally hard to detect by humans. Why should we expect an automated algorithm to be able to detect it?
Scams like this are only going to stop when every move you make on the Internet can be tracked down straight back to you. We're getting closer and closer to a decision: Privacy or security.
What's Slashdot's pick?

What a typical short-sighted "hail DIY" comment.
First of all, I doubt you're going to be able to fit the cores of your choice in that PS3 or slam 960GB of memory in there. It can hardly be called easy to use and I'm guessing Sony's support for your cluster is going to be disappointing as well because you're basically bankrupting them.

There should be clauses in your contract that handle intellectual property. If there's something like: "projects developed in a company setting are owned by the company" you should be careful because a judge might view using the company laptop as being in a company setting.

The world's most powerful particle smasher will restart in November at just half the energy the machine was designed to reach. But even at this level, the Large Hadron Collider has the potential to uncover exotic new physics, such as signs of hidden extra dimensions, physicists say.

Professor_Quail writes: Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminum by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.Link to Original Source

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samzenpuson Thursday July 02, 2009 @01:21AM
from the don't-cross-the-laser-line dept.

hh4m writes "Whether it's San Francisco, New York, or any bicyclistic city in between, you're destined to witness biker after biker dancing with danger, especially at night when visibility is uncomfortably low. Alex Tee and Evan Gant's LightLane device was recently just a concept but is soon to enter reality as a much-needed visual declaration of personal biking space. With a dire shortage of dedicated lanes, LightLane provides urban cyclists with a solution that adapts to them and any route they make take. The compact projector mounts easily to the rear of a bike frame and projects a bike lane-inspired linear pattern that provides great visibility and a familiarity that helps catch a driver's attention."

It's unfair to both the victims of Tianenmen square and the lives lost now to compare both.
Let's pretend you should know for sure the elections weren't rigged. Would you approve of the opposition causing riots 24/7?